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Archive for July 2009

America’s Drug Problem

Posted by: writtenpurpose451 on: July 30, 2009

I read this in the paper and thought I’d share it. It was wonderful. Enjoy! The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a Methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, “Why didn’t we have a drug problem [...]

Year One

Posted by: writtenpurpose451 on: July 23, 2009

We’d finished class, out before noon. I’d already asked this sweet boy to lunch, and scared him with my indecisiveness. And still, there I was, on his couch. We were watching 21, I movie that will forever remain special and dear to me. I remember I kept thinking how this was the guy from Across [...]

Don’t want to see no blood, don’t be a macho man…beat it?

Posted by: writtenpurpose451 on: July 7, 2009

I saw this article on Rupert Murdoc’s Twitter and it really moved me, in an angry, somewhat frustrated direction: A day before New York Rep. Peter King called Michael Jackson a “pervert” unworthy of nonstop media coverage, the aunt of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan on the same day Jackson died asked why her [...]


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